| Hip problem – week 2…well things are starting to finally get a lot better…there have been a number of false dawns along the way but I think this could be really it. I do hope so. Another reason for this is because the Tour de France ends this weekend and I will be at a loss without it.
However, yesterday saw the first really silly season story to hit the papers. It would seem that one year on the Olympics in London actually didn’t cost a thing. According to a Government study the amount of business generated by the Olympics was the almost the same as the costs of the whole thing and – wait for it – there are more benefits yet to come. We had a whole raft of talking heads from the PM down trying to convince us that, one year on, we should rejoice one more time about the no cost Olympics. However, when the report is examined in greater details we find that there are very little hard facts just an awful lot of assumptions. Now I willing to accept that that there were some financial benefits both real and opportunity but must we have paraded in front of us a report that is more reminiscent of Blair ‘dodgy dossier’ that got us all into the Iraq mess. Now just think if we hadn’t gone along with Brother George into Iraq how much money we would have saved, not to mention lives, for nothing of any lasting benefit. In fact measured against the Iraq mess the Olympics were a roaring financial success which made the country feel good about itself. I don’t thing that is something that could ever be said about Iraq. Simon Marchini |
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